Activists hold a weekly Wednesday rally outside the Japanese Embassy in central Seoul with riot policemen lining up around the compound’s walls on Aug. 14, 2013. The rally drew a larger crowd than usual as it was held one day before Korea observes the anniversary of its liberation from 36 years of Japanese colonial domination. Civic groups along with former “comfort women,” who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers, have been protesting outside the embassy every Wednesday since January 1992 to demand Tokyo’s admission of and apology for sexual enslavement of the women.